Acquire too much debt, however, and "collectors" might come looking for you. Money and prizes earned while playing the three games of chance can be transferred to your character. Xbox Live subscribers can also build their fortunes outside of the main game by playing Xbox Live Arcade's Fable II Pub Games. Cooperative play is supported via Xbox Live, allowing a friend to seamlessly join your world at any time. Fable II also features a canine companion that will perform tricks, dig up treasure, and protect you in combat. Fast-paced combos can be strung together by alternating between magical, ranged, and melee attacks. The setting takes place 500 years after the original game, enabling you to use guns in combat as well as swords, bows, and spells.
Your actions will literally change and shape the world, and the townsfolk will react accordingly. Your fortune amassed during your travels can be spent on houses, castles, taverns, clothing, equipment, tattoos, and more. Explore the lush countryside, fight bandits, slay foul creatures, venture into mysterious dungeons, marry, or raise a family. You begin the game as a boy or girl and will eventually mature into an adventurous adult. Acclaimed developer Peter Molyneux has crafted an action role-playing game filled with moral choices, allowing you to create an altruistic or evil character based on your decisions. Return to the vibrant world of Albion in this follow-up to 2004's Fable.